Madison Avenue

Madison Avenue is a reasonably sized elementary-level community in IRVINGTON, New Jersey, run under Irvington Public School District. The school enrolls 524 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Madison Avenue sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Irvington Public School District, which oversees 12 schools and 7,659 students, Madison Avenue is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Madison Avenue lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder consists of 39% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 36%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Madison Avenue has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Madison Avenue is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 27.9%; Madison Avenue posts 11.1%, -16.8 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,789 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Madison Avenue is one.

Burch Charter School of Excellence is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Madison Avenue at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 21.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Madison Avenue has expanded 72%, going from 304 students in 2018 to 524 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 21% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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